How much pain are you willing to endure for someone you love?
Bold, charismatic, and charming Blu Henderson wears a fake smile every day, pushing through life because she has to - not because she wants to.
Quiet, introverted, and mysterious Jace Boland catches her eye the second she sees him. After that, it's game over - not just for Blu, but for Jace as well.
Drawn together by inexplicable attraction, a whirlwind connection forms that persists and torments, mends and breaks, and forces both Blu and Jace to confront the traumas of their past while trying to make their relationship work.
A Hue of Blu explores how two broken hearts can find comfort in tragic losses, how two broken souls can find peace in pain, and how loving yourself may be the only way to love another... No matter the consequence.
I’m giving this book 5 Stars because of Blu’s journey and how relatable she and Jace are for me. It’s not fantasy .. it’s realistic and I LOVED IT.
I knew from the starting that it might not have a HEA and i was praying that maybe i’m wrong but towards the end i was just praying that please god these two shouldn’t end up together please. I’m so very happy that Jace and Blue didn’t end up together in the end.
I love Blu♥️🦋. I 100% connected to her. The façade she built, being confident and sometimes overconfident too. Being brave on the outside and all other qualities she showed to others so that they couldn’t see how broken she is. The overthinking on every single thing , the self-harm , the self-sabotaging , people walking out of her life , thinking she’s not worth it , toxic lovers and love life , suicidal ….. and so many other things that are told for her … describes me. I’ve never ever connected to a character more. In the beginning i liked her relationship with Jace… which was sort of friendship… but later on in the book , i empathized so much with her and her situation. Being in toxic relations and not being able to get out of it. Trying to do every single fucking thing for them to just stay in your life. I understood her deeply. Every time she ended back with Jace i was like not again. When she said “You fucked me up. And yet, you come back every time. Why? Why do you insist on doing this to me?” and he replied “You let me.” I was heartbroken for her .. even if it was true. She let him in every-time but i know that you just can’t remove some people from your life by just snapping your fingers together. Its a toxic cycle .. you just keep going back to them and they take and take unless there’s nothing more left to give and the you that remains behind is just the shell of a person you were before them. every time they got back together .. i screamed “ girlll goo away from this guy … live your happy life somewhere else” but just knew things don’t happen like that. Jace was not her happily ever after. I loved her when she finally ended things with Jace. How she started her healing journey and started loving and putting herself first. All THE MORE POWER AND LOVE TO YOU GIRL 💙♥️
I liked jace in the beginning but those feelings just went away as i progressed reading the book. I think he’s immature and just like every other boy these days. They want everything which entails a relationship but actually don’t want to put labels on it and just say there’s nothing special going on between them. I understood his need to get love and affection from his family .. to not to be treated as a Kid … to not to be judged for his looks before his glow up … to belong somewhere… to be worth fighting for…. but instead of growing up it just made him selfish , immature, jealous and a egoistic man. I think if he went to therapist he would know he had inferiority complex or something. He deserves the love of his family and everything that he didn’t get but he DIDN’T DESERVE BLU.
I love the ending of this book .. had these two ended up together i wouldn’t have given this book any star. The alternative ending was just not needed. So i’m content with how things turned out to be for Jace and Blu. Especially for Beatrice. 🫶🏻🦋
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
the best way to describe this? the plot of normal people if it was done atrociously and made you hate the mcs and not care if they ever found happiness. (so annoyed i’m over here writing run on sentences!!!)
this was like pulling teeth. i don’t recommend. i’d rather watch paint dry. i wasted 3 hours of my life. don’t do it. unless you want to, but if you end up hating it, you can’t blame me!!!
3.5/5⭐️ This wasn’t a book. This was a personal biography attack because I’m literally Blu. I think, feel and act like her so I more than understand her behavior and actions. I’ll forever defend her and am proud of her self love journey and the ending of her story. As for Jace he can go fuck himself. I’ve never hated a man so much in my entire life and he’s not even real. But istg every time he opened his mouth I just wanted to claw my eyes out and rip off the pages. Give that man free therapy because he seriously needs it.
I truly don’t know how to describe this book. When I tell her I was carrying the weight of so many emotions through out this book and cried them out at the end. This book will be in my head forever. I loved this book but hated the way it made me feel during and after.
4.7⭐️ it was so fucking realistic and very emotional. i'm proud of blu for choosing herself cause their relationship was toxic asf.i really liked jace at the beginning but through the book he wasn't good for her or for himself.he was telling blu to go to therapy but he was the one who needed to go, he was so selfish, jealous, immature who takes and never gives.
Edited: I’m changing my star rating to 4, just because as I get farther away from this book I can’t really remember much of what happened LOL but I do remember that I had a great time, so not knocking off more that 1 star
I’m sorry did I read the same book as some of ya’ll???? 5 stars for vibes and the emotions it made me feel. I could not have devoured this faster… I LOVE trauma, angst, pining, and emotional torture.
This was such a realistic story and idk if it’s that it hit home for me or what, but I’m obsessed.
Absolutely loved that she wrote us 2 endings. The romantic in me needed to second one ❤️🩹
When I think of the term YA, the show Gossip Girl comes to mind. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way. I loved Gossip Girl. Team Blair & Chuck all the way here. I even hated Serena with a passion… I was invested. It was pop culture at its finest.
But that’s all it was. Entertainment. There was nothing there to challenge me. To make me think of something in a different way. To create discomfort in me by exposing wounds I recognized but did not want scratched.
Gossip Girl was fun. Safe. It was pure and effective escapism. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It all depends on what you’re in the mood for. What your need is at the moment. Perhaps mindless fun… perhaps something more.
Something more usually involves a great deal of introspection. Of scratching the veneer to reveal the ugly truths underneath. It takes courage. A willingness to sit with that uncomfortable feeling until it unlocks something within you. A realization. Perhaps about life. Perhaps about yourself. Perhaps about that person you love so deeply but that constantly hurts you. Perhaps you are the one who constantly hurts themselves…
There are shows like Euphoria… also YA. This book is Euphoria.
The writing is visceral. Some passages land like a punch to the gut. You’re a fly on the wall, bearing witness to the messy lives and choices of the protagonists. You see them at their lowest, their most toxic versions laid bare.
The author does not shy away from exposing her subjects in a very unflattering light… but the lens through which you view them is empathetic.
They're immature, selfish, and overcompensating. But they're also good-hearted, concerned, and authentic. They will remind you of someone. Someone you’ve once known… someone you might've cut off for being too toxic. Maybe… you will even recognize a version (or parts) of yourself.
And that is what this book does. Beyond providing the reader with a gripping and unflinchingly honest love story, it looks upon its players with kindness. It makes them relatable. You may not like them. But you understand them.
Ultimately, they are just two people struggling, hurting (themselves and others), and mostly… just trying their damn best. Like the rest of us.
i had high expectations for this book and i can’t believe i’m left disappointed. there was so much more potential for the characters, especially jace. it focused too much on blu’s growth, her development and we got nothing for jace? and can i just say that jace also needed to idk, get his shit together??? neither of them had a personality and if they did, it never was the same as if they were different kinds of people put into one. the storyline was flat ass plain and boring. and yes, the writing was overly poetic, too poetic that it couldn’t make any more sense for the characters which made them just as equally boring, i was close to dropping this in the middle of it.
I picked this up because I came across a quote that enticed me.. unfortunately the book itself fell extremely flat. So much potential but it just didn’t dig deep enough for me like I hoped it would.
Have you ever felt like a book just ruined you and you’re sitting twenty minutes in the same place? Unable to think, unable to do anything? That’s what I feel
Dnf at 40 percent. I normally don’t review books I didn’t finish but if I can spare one person I will.
If you saw a quote from this book on TikTok that made you want to read it, do not.
If you see this book on TikTok just keep scrolling.
The writing is incredibly juvenile, I was cringing from page one and the timelines were all over the place and made no sense to me. There was no flow either.
2,5★ i would’ve hated these characters in real life. there was so much potential in here but unfortunately i felt like the approach needed more depth and maturity (it was so corny at times i wanted to scream)
WOW!! Just wow!! This is most definitely going on my favorite reads shelf, I am left completely speechless.
“You f*cked me over, you f*cked me up. And yet you come back every time. Why? Why do you insist on doing this to me?” His response may have been the most honest thing he’s ever said, and that terrified me. In one breath he shattered my soul. “you let me.”
This book broke me into pieces constantly and then put me back together, it was an emotional rollercoaster to say the least and I was here for every word of it. Beautifully written.
This book is for every mirrorball girlie. Every situationship girlie. It hurts but seeing someone clawing their back to their self is just worth it. I saw only one quote from this book and honestly? It passed the test for once. And that quote literally sums up this book. I would’ve recommended for every girl who struggles a little bit and tries to go through life bit by bit. Also I don’t want that alternative ending. I loved Beatrice very much. ❤️🩹
2 Stars. I read this because my sister really wanted me too, she even claimed I wouldn't like it. She was right. 1 star because I read the whole book. The 2nd star is because the best thing about this book was the ending. I definitely don't mean the alternate one.
💔💔i saw one sad quote about this and i was SOLD, and oh did it deliver. i was in floods of tears. i really loved this, the way i related to so many aspects in this has me not okay!!! this was REALISTIC, it was not a fantasy, it was about navigating a toxic relationship and more importantly your own mental health and self worth and how others can affect that and how it plays a part in your relationships& friendships. this was one instance where i was so glad there wasn’t a hea for the characters. i could write a long long essay on this book& these characters.
this one hit a little too close to home for me!!! blu’s character development and raw journey with herself from start to finish made me so emotional. i love books like this because i love the painstaking journey. jace fucking boland. lord help me. as someone who has experienced a relationship dynamic similar to this in aspects, this was so real for me. i knew this was not a relationship to route for at the start but i did anyway, and as i progressed through the book i grew more angry along with blu. it’s such a complex relationship to look at, you can see in his pov all the struggles he deals with too& you sympathise with him, but what i was reading in his povs ab her?! i’m sorry NO. this man was never sure if he even liked her, which alone is enough. felt intrigued by her, had many of his own issues to work through, liked having her around because she was a constant and ‘made him feel good about himself’ and loved how she loved him, never having any intention of loving her back. he liked the idea but never followed through, he was never what she needed and she was begging for something from someone who planned to give nothing. SHE WAS HIS EGO BOOST AND THAT IS ALL!!!! his severe trauma from always being looked down on loved her attention and he perused her because she was there and he was ‘horny.’- something he also said himself. he told on himself the entire time!!! there was no way of redeeming his character in this for me, i can absolutely sympathise and feel for him though. he had good intentions but couldn’t deliver them, i know it too well.
what was so hard was despite it all really loving them both together and the idea of them being able to work. because he saw her and she saw him!!! you can be so blinded by wanting to take any form of love or attention somebody will give you and you can so easily convince yourself your fighting for something worth it because they’ve given you a sliver of what you so desperately want. it’s something you chase to feel even if it’s a fraction of what you deserve. i felt my heart break in their small vulnerable moments where you think oh they really get each other. but this shows you can not change someone!! if they are not willing to be what you need they never will be. never ignore how they really make you feel about yourself, that tells you everything you need. in the end blu deserved so much more than he was willing to offer her. and deserved to chose herself, love herself and find her worth, and that was the best ending to read wholeheartedly. i rooted for her the entire way through. my heart hurts now.
(this review was originally 4000 characters& i had to cut half out… that is how passionately i feel ab this book.)
two very complicated but real characters whom i think if written about on a more deeper and more mature level would’ve been incredible but the writing in this book felt very… wattpad… very young… and just very surface level.
God that was painful to read. Unfortunately all the terrible reviews are correct. Imagine normal people met wattpad met an angsty teenage girl’s definition of “morally grey” characters. This handled sensitive topics in the most juvenile way possible. My first one star read of the year 🤧…
PLS GOD LET ME STOP TAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM BOOKTOK